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LATEST: Ritchings stable in intensive care with brain bruising

DOCTORS in Oxford are set to try and wake Swindon Robins rider Darryl Ritchings from sedation today following his crash at Blunsdon on Thursday night.

The Purton teenager tangled with Coventry reserve Jason Garrity in heat two before crashing into the safety fence at the Abbey Stadium, around two metres before the start of the air fence entering turn one of lap two.

He was taken to hospital in Swindon on Thursday where it was confirmed he had suffered a broken ankle, as well as possible knee and elbow injuries, but was transferred to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after his condition worsened overnight and bruising was found on his brain.

The young rider, who was realising his dream of riding for his hometown club, is being kept sedated in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. His condition is described as stable.